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Common Good Co-op Store

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1938]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.8 x 11.2 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man in an apron standing in front of a co-op store bearing the sign "C.G. Co-operative Association", otherwise known as the Army of the Common Good. Window displays include the goods he carries and advertising signs for Coca-Cola and Orange Crush are put up below the windows. In fro…

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 6.8 x 11.2 cm

Material Details: Inscribed in pencil, recto, b. "Co op store Douglas R." and in blue ink, verso, t. "Coop Store Douglas Road/ C.G. Co-op 1939", b. "Mr Love Mayor of/ store/ no 2", in blue ball point pen, l.l. "Main Store was at McKay station/ this is No 1 Branch store" stamped on verso, c. "VANCOUVER/ DRUG CO. LTD/ SEP 12 1938/ Nu-Gloss"

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man in an apron standing in front of a co-op store bearing the sign "C.G. Co-operative Association", otherwise known as the Army of the Common Good. Window displays include the goods he carries and advertising signs for Coca-Cola and Orange Crush are put up below the windows. In front of the store is wood plank sidewalk.

Subjects: Geographic Features - Sidewalks; Buildings - Commercial - Stores; Occupations - Clerks

Names: C G Co-operative Association; Army of Common Good

Geographic Access: Douglas Road

Accession Code: HV976.46.1

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1938]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-06-20

Notes: Title based on caption of photograph

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Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1950 and 1960]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney walking hand and hand down a busy commercial street.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11.5 x 8 cm

Scope and Content: Mary Davis and her mother Edith Finney walking hand and hand down a busy commercial street.

History: Mary Davis was born February 3, 1910 in Stafford, England to Sam and Edith Finney and came to Canada as a child. Her family settled in Saskatchewan. She married her first husband, Clifford Reynolds Hamilton in 1940 in Rossland BC and was subsequently divorced in 1949 in Vancouver BC. She moved to Burnaby somtime between 1940 and the mid-1950's. Mary owned Davis Confectionary with her second husband (presumably named Davis) at the corner of Beresford and MacPherson. The store acted as a grocery store and also a drug store. Mary and her husband owned the store in the 1950's /1960's. Mary passed away in 2001, and had no children. Photograph was taken by famous Vancouver street photographer Foncie Pulice. Foncie began working as a street photographer in 1934 and retired in 1979. Foncie died in 2003.

Names: Finney, Edith; Davis, Mary

Geographic Access: Vancouver

Accession Code: BV017.50.4

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: May be restricted by third party rights

Date: [between 1950 and 1960]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 12-Jun-2018

Photographer: Pulice, Foncie

Notes: Title base on contents of photograph; Stamped on verso: "FONCIE'S FOTOS/ 505 GRANVILLE ST./ VANCOUVER, B.C."

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